Wildfire

Wildfire

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Wildfire

"The famous racetrack melodrama that ran a solid year on Broadway, picturized with a real horse race at the celebrated Oriental Park Track, Havana."

1925

1h 10m

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Claire Barrington falls heir to a famous racing stable with many debts, whose payment is dependent upon the sweepstakes in which the horse Wildfire is entered.

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Aileen Pringle

Claire Barrington

Aileen Pringle

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Edna Murphy

Myrtle Barrington

Edna Murphy

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Holmes Herbert

Garrison

Holmes Herbert

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Edmund Breese

Sen. Woodhurst

Edmund Breese

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Antrim Short

Ralph Woodhurst

Antrim Short

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Lawford Davidson

John Duffy

Lawford Davidson

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Mary Thurman

Marie

Mary Thurman

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Tom Blake

Matt Donovan

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Arthur Bryson

Chappie Raster

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Will Archie

Bud

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Edna Morton

Hortense

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Robert Billoupe

Valet

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Vester Pegg

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